Push to Multiple Remotes Simultaneously

I've started mirroring some of my git repos to multiple remotes, making use of git's decentralized nature. I quickly realized this can become tedious. If I have my origin remote set to urlA, and backup remote set to urlB, then I have to push to each remote each time.

$ git push origin main
$ git push backup main

I don't know about you, but I will forget to push to backup at least 50% of the time.

Turns out you can use git remote set-url to add multiple repo urls to a remote (for push only, not fetch). So you can add urlA and urlB to origin, so any push to origin will push to both remotes.

$ git remote set-url --add --push origin urlA
$ git remote set-url --add --push origin urlB

$ git remote -v 
origin  urlA (fetch)
origin  urlA (push)
origin  urlB (push)

You can't do this for fetch - think about the conflicts pulling from branches on 2 different remotes that have diverged 😱

git-remote Docs

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